Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Wilmington, NC

Issued

Jul 16, 2000, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)

Expired

Jul 16, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT

In force

66 min

Issued by

NWS Wilmington, NC

Area

Whole counties

County Columbus County, NC

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

000 
WUUS52 KILM 161854
SVRILM
NCC047-162000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
254 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COLUMBUS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 250 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS NEAR OLD    
  DOCK...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF WHITEVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 10  
  TO 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   BOLTON AT 330 PM EDT
   WHITEVILLE AT 335 PM EDT

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 58 MILES AN
HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHSER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN WILMINGTON NC.

$$

LAT...LON 3413 7885 3414 7850 3434 7838 3444 7882

NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 16, 2:30 PM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
230 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

CLOSED LOW OVER GREAT LAKES THIS AFTN TO LIFT NE AND OPEN UP
OVERNIGHT. H5 TROUGH AXIS IS EXPECTED TO PUSH OFF THE COAST EARLY
MON. SFC TROF WHICH HAS BEEN WAFFLING AROUND THE CWA LAST COUPLE OF
DAYS SHOULD FINALLY PUSH OFFSHORE MON AFTN. NOT REALLY EXCITED OVER
THE CHANCE OF PCPN TONIGHT/EARLY MON GIVEN THE ABUNDANT INSTABILITY
LAST 36 HOURS AND LACK OF ANY SIGNIFICANT CONVECTION. WILL CONTINUE
WITH ONGOING DRY FCST UNLESS LATE AFTN CONVECTION WARRANTS AN
EVENING POP. WOULD NOT BE SHOCKED TO SEE AN ISOLATED TSTM AFTER
MIDNIGHT GIVEN H5 PVA AS TROF AXIS MOVES OVERHEAD...BUT AS MENTIONED
EARLIER...LACK OF SIGNIFICANT CONVECTION SO FAR MAKES THE DECISION
TO LEAVE OUT POPS A LITTLE EASIER.

WED NIGHT/THU S/WV LOOKS WEAKER AND FURTHER NORTH THAN PREVIOUS RUN
SO WILL LEAVE FCST DRY THROUGH EXTENDED.

CWF: WEAK SFC LOW BETWEEN MYR AND CHS RESULTING IN SE WINDS AT FPSN7
AND SE WINDS AT 41004. FLOW EXPECTED TO BECOME NWLY AS THE TROUGH
MOVES OFFSHORE EARLY MON. MODELS NOT IN AGREEMENT WITH SFC FEATURES
ALONG THE COAST MON WITH ETA KEEPING A WEAK LOW OVER SRN SC COAST.
WILL LIKELY OPT FOR THE AVN/NGM SOLUTIONS WHICH ARE IN BETTER
AGREEMMENT AND BRING NW TO W WINDS OVER THE WATERS MON. SPEEDS 15
KTS OR LESS AND SEAS GENERALLY 3-4 FT.

PRELIM CCF:
ILM UB 070/092 070/093 073 33110
FLO UB 069/094 069/095 072 33110
MYR UB 071/089 070/089 073 33210

.ILM...NONE.

MORGAN

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.